WOMEN STILL EARN LESS

WASHINGTON -- Women with college degrees earn about the same as men with only one to three years of high school, and working women make only 64 cents for every dollar men earn, a survey says. The study also found that 80 percent of working women earn less than $19,000 a year.

The survey was commissioned by 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women, to mark National Secretaries' Week today through April 25.

Weekly earnings for women in management average $395 -- 63.7 percent of the $620 earned by men in management, the study said.

-- UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

ADVICE FROM GORBACHEV

National black leaders Saturday scoffed at Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's suggestion to create separate states for minorities as a means of solving racial problems in the United States.

"The NAACP has always pushed for integration," said Jim Williams, a spokesman for the NAACP. "Certainly Mr. Gorbachev does not know the nature of this country."

Gorbachev reportedly made the suggestion to visiting congressmen. Rep. Norman Dicks, D-Wash., said the Soviet leader noted that the Soviet system of nominally autonomous republics was based on ethnic background and culture and asked "Why don't you?"

-- UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

U.S. KNEW MARCOS PLANS

WASHINGTON -- Contrary to official assertions, the United States Embassy in Manila knew that Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos was about to declare martial law in 1972 and did not act to stop him, according to a new book.

Raymond Bonner, author of Waltzing With a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy, contends the CIA got a copy of the martial law declaration several days before Marcos announced it. The book also contends Marcos was not concerned about possible adverse American reaction because he had telephoned President Nixon, who said he had no objection.